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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the evil words a sign and seal?
(a) They project the result that they will bring.
(b) They seal the intention of the speaker.
(c) They pull men out of their solitude.
(d) They identify fellow Mexicans among strangers.

2. What was the purpose of the publishing house Fondo de Cultura Economica?
(a) To print books as cheaply as possible.
(b) To print texts about economics for South Americans.
(c) To print texts about Mexican life and culture.
(d) To act as a façade for Revolutionary pamphlets.

3. What was Vasconcelos' philosophy regarding the material world?
(a) The supernatural world governs the material world.
(b) Emotions, rather than intellect, comprehend the world and create reality.
(c) The material world cannot be understood nor explained.
(d) Intellect, rather than emotions, comprehends the world and creates reality.

4. What was the Mexican intellectual's goal?
(a) Political action.
(b) Educational reform.
(c) Cultural education.
(d) Propagation of the arts.

5. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?
(a) Women are wild and lecherous.
(b) Women are decent and modest.
(c) Women are shaped by the minds of men.
(d) Women are idols.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following powers does the saying "I am your father" hold? (Chapter Four, page 80).

2. What type of book did Xavier Villaurrutia write?

3. What did Moctezuma think as the Spaniards approached?

4. How do Mexicans perceive an opening-up of one's self?

5. Why have Mexican culture and politics vacillated from one extreme to another? (Chapter Seven, page 157).

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